Despite much talk of its decline, the nuclear family persists as a structure central to contemporary society, a fact to be lamented, according to the ideas of Michele Barrett and Mary McIntosh. The Anti-social Family dissects the network of household, kinship and sexual relations that constitute the family form in advanced capitalist societies to show how they reinforce conditions of inequality. This classic work explores the personal and social needs that the family promises to meet but more often denies, and proposes moral and political practices for more egalitarian caring...
Despite much talk of its decline, the nuclear family persists as a structure central to contemporary society, a fact to be lamented, according to the ...
In a world shrunk by modern transport and communication, Star Trek has maintained the values of western maritime exploration through the discovery of strange new worlds in space. Throughout its fifty-year history, the starry sea has provided a familiar backdrop to an ongoing interrogation of what it means to be human.
This book charts the developing Star Trek story from the 1960s through to the present day. Although the core values and progressive politics of the series earliest episodes have remained at the heart of Star Trek throughout half a century, in other ways the story it tells...
In a world shrunk by modern transport and communication, Star Trek has maintained the values of western maritime exploration through the discovery ...
In a world shrunk by modern transport and communication, Star Trek has maintained the values of western maritime exploration through the discovery of strange new worlds in space. Throughout its fifty-year history, the starry sea has provided a familiar backdrop to an ongoing interrogation of what it means to be human.
This book charts the developing Star Trek story from the 1960s through to the present day. Although the core values and progressive politics of the series earliest episodes have remained at the heart of Star Trek throughout half a century, in other ways the...
In a world shrunk by modern transport and communication, Star Trek has maintained the values of western maritime exploration through the d...
In the past "women" have been radically undermined, and newer concerns with "difference", "identity", and "power" have emerged. This text explores these developments in a set of specially commissioned essays by feminist theorists.
In the past "women" have been radically undermined, and newer concerns with "difference", "identity", and "power" have emerged. This text explores the...
